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Although I agree with your point about the thread, which seems to have go very weird very quickly, I find it interesting that, if these figures are representative across the country (presuming that it is leavers who regret their actions) the small percentage who would change would be enough to...

I think that we all know from his time at Education, that Mr Gove actually meant that he is sick of hearing from those experts that suggest he is wrong.

Steady. You know how sick the country is of experts. We now live in a world where making vital decisions shouldn't be clouded by things like knowledge, facts, or evidence. What could possibly go wrong?

Although all born pre-1945, my dad's family had similar upbringings. However my originally post did not argue that nobody had it tough, merely that, for a lot of the generation we are discussing, things got much better than it had been for their parents and that they didn't continue to make...

I don't think you have a particularly strong understanding of the word 'isolationism' http://www.dictionary.com/browse/isolationism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolationism I don't feel the need to label you incredibly stupid though. That would seem fairly crass.

Putting aside the ad hominem nonsense about Jeremy Kyle and getting back to facts, the baby-boomers weren't labelled 'the golden generation' because of all the hardships they endured: http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2010/01/remarkable-personal-free If you want to carry on mythologising...

Very stirring and I'm sure, like Farage, it would go down very well at the golf club. However, your maths is also out. The generation we are talking about was born post war and through the 1950s. They weren't born when their parents voted in Atlee's 1945 government and were at oldest three...

Nice attempt at propaganda, but those who fought in the second world war aged 18-24 are now between 89 and 101. Most of that generation are dead. The generation that overwhelmingly voted Brexit are their children, the generation that was given the Welfare State, NHS, council housing, decent...